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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pocatello, ID
NWS Pocatello, ID issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2007, 1:28 PM MDT for Bear Lake County, Caribou County, Idaho. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2007, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2007, 1:51 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pocatello, ID
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bear Lake County, ID, Caribou County, ID
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPIH 051928 TORPIH IDC007-029-052000- /O.NEW.KPIH.TO.W.0008.070905T1928Z-070905T2000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 128 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BEAR LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... SOUTHEASTERN CARIBOU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO... * UNTIL 200 PM MDT * AT 126 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL BEAR LAKE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF MONTPELIER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4242 11104 4239 11127 4251 11132 4270 11104 TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 231DEG 34KT 4246 11124 $$ HEDGES
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KPIH 051951 SVSPIH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 151 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 IDC007-029-052001- /O.CAN.KPIH.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070905T2000Z/ CARIBOU ID-BEAR LAKE ID- 151 PM MDT WED SEP 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BEAR LAKE AND SOUTHEASTERN CARIBOU COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. LAT...LON 4242 11104 4239 11127 4251 11132 4270 11104 TIME...MOT...LOC 1951Z 231DEG 34KT 4260 11101 $$ HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 8:12 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Cassia, Oneida | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:39 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:29 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Oneida | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 11:43 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Bannock | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bannock | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 12:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PIH | Bear Lake, Franklin | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 12:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 51 min |
| Sep 5, 1:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Caribou | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PIH | Bonneville | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 3:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PIH | Blaine | 4 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.